So now we know that Throne of Eldraine will be high fantasy / fairy tell themed. Knowing this, we can come up with fairy tales from our history that might show up as cards or themes for the set.
Some ideas:
Magical Beans
Witches who eat Kids
Red riding hood
Magic swords
Dragons / Dragonslayers
Humpty... Dumpty?
Beauty and the Beast (Liliana and Garruk? Haha jk)
Puss in Boots (next cat legend?)
Sleeping Beauty
Giant's castle in the sky, goose that lays golden eggs, magic harp (Jack and the beanstalk)
Big bad wolf (easy include surely?)
Three little pigs
Rumpelstiltskin (as a goblin? gnome?)
Seven dwarves
Enchanted sleep (blue/white lockdown aura?)
I think between swords and beans (transforming to beanstalk, gives you some great advantage, gives opponent Giant token?) and like a crown or spinning wheel, this set could have the best artifacts since Kaladesh, maybe Mirrodin.
I don't really get hyped for Standard sets since Dominaria let me down, but I have always been sad that I didn't start playing until after Lorwyn and this seems close enough, I'm really excited
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Big bad wolf is prediction number one si cue we are seeing wolf support being buffed in this if legendary better be naya and also throw In werewolf support even though there isn’t any in the set
Holy grail card is another since King Arthur is the secondary theme maybe a mythic can’t lose life card
If there’s enough poison apple focused cards maybe poison counters return I mean after all we do have proliferate
Little red riding hood is another
Certain princesses from the most known fairy tales I know snowwhite is one atleast
Maybe a legendary ogre to present shrek (just kidding lol)
Puss in boots might be a decent choice
Maybe kisses to break certain things/curses both normal and reverse role
Maybe a a witch legendary that can support curse tribal
We already have a frog prince and the dessert house in Hansel and Gretel in confirmed art, and on the Arthurian side, we already have the Lady of the Lake (complete with Excalibur).
I'm hoping for some of the more obscure and dark Grimm fairy tales, such as a reference to The Juniper Tree (or at least a bird dropping a millstone on a despicable lady), a reference to King Thrushbeard (or at least a knight knocking over some poor lady's pottery for sale), or a reference to one of the love stories such as Hurleburlebutz (or at least a lady riding on a fox's tail) or Hans My Hedgehog (or at least a hedgehog bard), but those are quite obscure, so it's hard for me to expect them.
There are so many fairy tales to mine that I'm now expecting scant Arthurian references, although I'm hoping for a Green Knight, a loathly lady, Mordred, or maybe even a kitchen scullion who gets himself knighted.
I'm expecting a rapunzel call out and Merlin in the court. I'll be overjoyed if we get a figure trapped in an apple tree as a Lignify type spell in reference to Merlin's ultimate fate in the mythos. Also references to the knights. I can see a cycle of legendary knights relating to some of the most famous members of the round table.
Based on the existing art, we already (probably) have:
- Avalon
- Knights of the Round Table
- Camelot
- Hansel and Gretel / the Gingerbread House
- The Frog Prince
- Baked into a Pie? (Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds? Jack Horner?)
- The Lady of the Lake
- Sleeping Beauty / True Love's Kiss (role-reversed if the former)
- Wicked Stepmother
- Overgrown by Brambles (from Sleeping Beauty)
- Wicked Queen w/ Apple (Snow White)
- Little Mermaid
- The Gingerbread Man
- Goldilocks (now a bear hunter)
- Little Red Riding Hood (who is apparently Rowan Kenrith) -> could mean Will Kenrith is Little Boy Blue, or both double as Hansel and Gretel
I agree Big Bad Wolf, Rapunzel, Glass Slippers, the Holy Grail, Excalibur, Merlin, Mordred, and Morgan Le Fay are all very likely, and I hope we see the Pied Piper, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, and the Green Knight. I also second the request for a few (probably won't be many, sadly) more obscure Fairy Tale references - the Blue Light, Bearskin, and Snow White and Briar Rose, for example.
Since The Big Bad Wolf is usually portrayed as being anthropomorphic, is it possible we'll get The Big Bad Werewolf?
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I've seen existing art corresponding to Rapunzel and to walking straight into a book.
Based on the showcase card, I don't think we'll get double-faced cards in the set, so I think any and all werewolves will not be DFCs.
Looking at the fairy tales again, I think a reference to The Three Heads in the Well or to Diamonds and Toads (i.e. someone gets prizes from generous patrons while a relative gets punished by those same patrons for treating them poorly) looks fairly plausible to me, and so do references to The Three Billy Goats Gruff or The Bremen Town Musicians, though I'm long-shot hoping for a reference to the Grimm fairy tale The Boots of Buffalo Leather (or at least a soldier drinking to the health of thieves and freezing them on the spot, or maybe an incognito mage-warrior travelling with an incognito king).
I'm hoping for some of the more obscure and dark Grimm fairy tales, such as a reference to The Juniper Tree (or at least a bird dropping a millstone on a despicable lady), a reference to King Thrushbeard (or at least a knight knocking over some poor lady's pottery for sale), or a reference to one of the love stories such as Hurleburlebutz (or at least a lady riding on a fox's tail) or Hans My Hedgehog (or at least a hedgehog bard), but those are quite obscure, so it's hard for me to expect them.
I'm hoping for a reference to oneeye, twoeye and threeye myself though I figure that story is too obscure. I do however think its likely to see a All-kinds-of-furs and/or donkey skin since its it better known and is a trope that could be translated into a card.
Also a legendary Orge that cares about Swamps for the memes.
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Mermaids, hags and witches have also been seen already.
Lady of the lake... Excalibur
Looks like the little mermaid to me... mirror turning her into a human girl...
Snow White’s evil queen reimagined as a child eating hag/spirit?
Evil step mother, you can see Cinderella in the background.
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I do have to wonder: How straight are they playing the tropes? Like, we all know the version of Cinderella where Cindy gets hitched with Prince Charming and makes her leap from rags to riches. While I can understand if they want to change that little detail to avoid the "marry your way to money" message, how much can they change while keeping the story feeling faithful to the source? I think it would be better to add story where Cindy's diligence and integrity directly contribute to her success, like if she shows kindness to the Fairy Godmother while the latter is disguised as a humble old beggar woman worse off than Cindy herself, or she and Prince Charming get some development before getting hitched.
Still hoping for "Royalty matters" as a set theme. Between the (hopeful) King Arthur and the various Princesses, Throne of Eldraine feels like a prime opportunity to revisit royalty as a creature type. Most likely the type is simply Royal, but if they did King, Queen, Prince, and Princess as separate types grouped into a royalty tribal batch, I'd be impressed. I'd rather a Human Princess be a Human Princess than a Human Royal, sounds less generic, boring, and washed out that way. Darien, King of Kjeldor being a Human King has more punch to it than him being a Human Royal. Brago, King Eternal should be a Spirit King. Queen Marchesa should be a Human Queen. And so on.
Here's a list of cards that could possibly be affected by a royalty errata:
I'm thinking that only cards that are actual royalty or bear a reasonable semblance to royalty get a royalty subtype, so cards like Ant Queen and Hornet Queen would be skipped.
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What kind of creature types do you think we'll see in the set? Human, Merfolk, and Faerie have all been confirmed (plus Construct if that's what the Gingerbread Man is; and Maro said there would be a "big bad wolf", so either wolf or werewolf), but I hope we also see a return of the Hag creature type. I'm not sure if they'll go for Hag or Human Wizard, but I'm hoping the former as they're such a fairy tale staple.
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Gingerbread Man I figured would be an Elemental. Maybe red, with haste and self bounce? If I recall, a Fox ends up eating the Gingerbread Man, and Foxes often play the role of trickster in fairy tales. If there's a Big Bad Wolf, then we'll probably also see Little Red Riding Hood (Rowan?) and three little pigs. We'll have at least one Frog, or a card that turns creatures into Frogs.
And again, I'm pulling for King, Queen, Prince, and Princess. They can easily be batched as royal. And then we could have Knights and other cards that care about you controlling royal creatures.
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What kind of creature types do you think we'll see in the set? Human, Merfolk, and Faerie have all been confirmed (plus Construct if that's what the Gingerbread Man is; and Maro said there would be a "big bad wolf", so either wolf or werewolf), but I hope we also see a return of the Hag creature type. I'm not sure if they'll go for Hag or Human Wizard, but I'm hoping the former as they're such a fairy tale staple.
W-Dwarfs
U-Merfolk
B-Hags
R-Goblins
G-?
Merfolk and Goblins fit in this kind of world and are the characteristic races so they normal go in my default. Dwarfs are also a staple, from Snow White, Snow White/White Rose and Rose Red, Rumplestiltskin and Three Little Men in the Woods and none of the white races (not counting humans) would fit as well. Vampires and Zombies don't quite fit so I think hags would be a great fit (I used them in my own set). Green is tricky since while they fit, elves aren't a huge trope in fairy tales, but I could see hags, wolves/werewolves or just one or two off talking animals to fill in.
Faeries will be interesting if we get human sized fairies for the godmother(s), Maro said there will be a card that plays as the Big bad wolf so werewolves might be a race if they don't go with a straight up wolf and giants, trolls and ogres all found as well. Beast would also be a fun and resonate feel to them. Pinocchio might also appears as a treefolk.
We could also see talking animals/helpful animals friends with birds, rats (mice), elf (deer), rabbits, horses, fish, hound, boar (pigs) ect. Constructs that are magical talking items I think would pop up as well.
In the story of one eye, two eye and three eye we have cyclopes like beings so that be fun but that just me hoping for my fav not well know tale.
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Pinocchio would be a construct not a treefolk, and I don’t see hags being common enough to be an iconic but I would love to be wrong about that. Also hoping for curses and curse tribal...
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Pinocchio would be a construct not a treefolk, and I don’t see hags being common enough to be an iconic but I would love to be wrong about that. Also hoping for curses and curse tribal...
The original story of Pinocchio, he was made from already living wood (no fairy magic brought him to life) so that could be flavored a tree folk.
As I said Hag is mostly because vampires and zombies don't quiet feel right in fairy tale world, but evil witches do thus hags.
I'd also be up for a new class though I think Noble would work better for a more generic term.
As for the iconic, angels and demons where in some stories (Grimms and a few other where Christians so at point biblical themes show up). In somewhat popular story called the girl with no hands, a man is tricked into selling his daughter to the devil. An angel tells her to keep herself pure and her hands clean and the devil couldn't touch her. So the devil has the father cut the girls hands. So while angles, devils and demons could show up they aren't normally thought of in term of fairy tales. Fairies could fill in for angles (and sphinx who are not found in fairy tales) as the fairy godmother/fairy who bless those who show kindness. Dragons are a defiant in, I think we will still at least one guarding a tower or hoarding gold. Hydras has the same issue as sphinxes and I think again beasts or werwolves/wolves could fill in.
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King Arthur
The Sword in the Stone
Queen Guinivere
Sir Lancelor
Sir Gawain
Sir Accolon
Sir Percival
The Lady of the Lake
Excalibur
Merlin
Morgana Le Fay
Mordred
Camelot
Frog Prince
Hansel and Gretal
The Gingerbread House
Goldilocks
Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
Big Bad Wolf
Three Little Pigs
Snow White
Dwarves
Hag with Poisoned Apple
Cinderella
Prince Charming
Wicked Stepmother
Stepsisters
Fairy Godmother
Sleeping Beauty
Maleficent
The Little Mermaid
The Sea Witch
Beauty and the Beast
Rapunzel
The Tower
Jack
Beanstalk
Castle in the Clouds
Giants
Trolls
Goats
Bridge
Pinocchio
Gingerbread Man
Puss in Boots
Ogres
This definitely seems like another set where a high legend count would be appropriate. Like, it would make sense for the royals to all be legends. Add in a seeding convention where every pack has a King, Queen, Prince, or Princess in it and you're gold for a royalty matters mechanic.
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Really looking forward to some Dwarves in this set, and not just the Snow White Dwarves. Hopefully we get some with the whole King Arthur theme as well. There are more than a few stories (Arthurian) that reference Dwarves and I think it would be cool to have a Dwarf Squire or Armskeeper or something.
I am also curious as to what the Gingerbread Man's type would be. Construct possibly, but usually that's only artifacts, and he's not really an artifact, per say. Elemental could work I suppose...
Some ideas:
Magical Beans
Witches who eat Kids
Red riding hood
Magic swords
Dragons / Dragonslayers
Humpty... Dumpty?
Beauty and the Beast (Liliana and Garruk? Haha jk)
Puss in Boots (next cat legend?)
Sleeping Beauty
Dunes of Zairo
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Big bad wolf (easy include surely?)
Three little pigs
Rumpelstiltskin (as a goblin? gnome?)
Seven dwarves
Enchanted sleep (blue/white lockdown aura?)
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I wonder with poisoned apples running around if we'll see the return of poison.
Giants. Dwarves. Mermaids. Already have seen faeries. Old hags and witches.
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Mermaids, hags and witches have also been seen already.
I don't think there's much chance of poison as a returning mechanic but giants and dwarves have good chances I reckon.
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I don't really get hyped for Standard sets since Dominaria let me down, but I have always been sad that I didn't start playing until after Lorwyn and this seems close enough, I'm really excited
Holy grail card is another since King Arthur is the secondary theme maybe a mythic can’t lose life card
If there’s enough poison apple focused cards maybe poison counters return I mean after all we do have proliferate
Little red riding hood is another
Certain princesses from the most known fairy tales I know snowwhite is one atleast
Maybe a legendary ogre to present shrek (just kidding lol)
Puss in boots might be a decent choice
Maybe kisses to break certain things/curses both normal and reverse role
Maybe a a witch legendary that can support curse tribal
I'm hoping for some of the more obscure and dark Grimm fairy tales, such as a reference to The Juniper Tree (or at least a bird dropping a millstone on a despicable lady), a reference to King Thrushbeard (or at least a knight knocking over some poor lady's pottery for sale), or a reference to one of the love stories such as Hurleburlebutz (or at least a lady riding on a fox's tail) or Hans My Hedgehog (or at least a hedgehog bard), but those are quite obscure, so it's hard for me to expect them.
There are so many fairy tales to mine that I'm now expecting scant Arthurian references, although I'm hoping for a Green Knight, a loathly lady, Mordred, or maybe even a kitchen scullion who gets himself knighted.
- Avalon
- Knights of the Round Table
- Camelot
- Hansel and Gretel / the Gingerbread House
- The Frog Prince
- Baked into a Pie? (Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds? Jack Horner?)
- The Lady of the Lake
- Sleeping Beauty / True Love's Kiss (role-reversed if the former)
- Wicked Stepmother
- Overgrown by Brambles (from Sleeping Beauty)
- Wicked Queen w/ Apple (Snow White)
- Little Mermaid
- The Gingerbread Man
- Goldilocks (now a bear hunter)
- Little Red Riding Hood (who is apparently Rowan Kenrith) -> could mean Will Kenrith is Little Boy Blue, or both double as Hansel and Gretel
I agree Big Bad Wolf, Rapunzel, Glass Slippers, the Holy Grail, Excalibur, Merlin, Mordred, and Morgan Le Fay are all very likely, and I hope we see the Pied Piper, Puss in Boots, Rumpelstiltskin, and the Green Knight. I also second the request for a few (probably won't be many, sadly) more obscure Fairy Tale references - the Blue Light, Bearskin, and Snow White and Briar Rose, for example.
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if thats the case better be legendary and be atleast naya
Based on the showcase card, I don't think we'll get double-faced cards in the set, so I think any and all werewolves will not be DFCs.
Looking at the fairy tales again, I think a reference to The Three Heads in the Well or to Diamonds and Toads (i.e. someone gets prizes from generous patrons while a relative gets punished by those same patrons for treating them poorly) looks fairly plausible to me, and so do references to The Three Billy Goats Gruff or The Bremen Town Musicians, though I'm long-shot hoping for a reference to the Grimm fairy tale The Boots of Buffalo Leather (or at least a soldier drinking to the health of thieves and freezing them on the spot, or maybe an incognito mage-warrior travelling with an incognito king).
like a few macbeth references or something
I'm hoping for a reference to oneeye, twoeye and threeye myself though I figure that story is too obscure. I do however think its likely to see a All-kinds-of-furs and/or donkey skin since its it better known and is a trope that could be translated into a card.
Also a legendary Orge that cares about Swamps for the memes.
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Lady of the lake... Excalibur
Looks like the little mermaid to me... mirror turning her into a human girl...
Snow White’s evil queen reimagined as a child eating hag/spirit?
Evil step mother, you can see Cinderella in the background.
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Still hoping for "Royalty matters" as a set theme. Between the (hopeful) King Arthur and the various Princesses, Throne of Eldraine feels like a prime opportunity to revisit royalty as a creature type. Most likely the type is simply Royal, but if they did King, Queen, Prince, and Princess as separate types grouped into a royalty tribal batch, I'd be impressed. I'd rather a Human Princess be a Human Princess than a Human Royal, sounds less generic, boring, and washed out that way. Darien, King of Kjeldor being a Human King has more punch to it than him being a Human Royal. Brago, King Eternal should be a Spirit King. Queen Marchesa should be a Human Queen. And so on.
Here's a list of cards that could possibly be affected by a royalty errata:
I'm thinking that only cards that are actual royalty or bear a reasonable semblance to royalty get a royalty subtype, so cards like Ant Queen and Hornet Queen would be skipped.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
—Mowagh the Gwyllion, Fang Skulkin
And again, I'm pulling for King, Queen, Prince, and Princess. They can easily be batched as royal. And then we could have Knights and other cards that care about you controlling royal creatures.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
W-Dwarfs
U-Merfolk
B-Hags
R-Goblins
G-?
Merfolk and Goblins fit in this kind of world and are the characteristic races so they normal go in my default. Dwarfs are also a staple, from Snow White, Snow White/White Rose and Rose Red, Rumplestiltskin and Three Little Men in the Woods and none of the white races (not counting humans) would fit as well. Vampires and Zombies don't quite fit so I think hags would be a great fit (I used them in my own set). Green is tricky since while they fit, elves aren't a huge trope in fairy tales, but I could see hags, wolves/werewolves or just one or two off talking animals to fill in.
Faeries will be interesting if we get human sized fairies for the godmother(s), Maro said there will be a card that plays as the Big bad wolf so werewolves might be a race if they don't go with a straight up wolf and giants, trolls and ogres all found as well. Beast would also be a fun and resonate feel to them. Pinocchio might also appears as a treefolk.
We could also see talking animals/helpful animals friends with birds, rats (mice), elf (deer), rabbits, horses, fish, hound, boar (pigs) ect. Constructs that are magical talking items I think would pop up as well.
In the story of one eye, two eye and three eye we have cyclopes like beings so that be fun but that just me hoping for my fav not well know tale.
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The original story of Pinocchio, he was made from already living wood (no fairy magic brought him to life) so that could be flavored a tree folk.
As I said Hag is mostly because vampires and zombies don't quiet feel right in fairy tale world, but evil witches do thus hags.
I'd also be up for a new class though I think Noble would work better for a more generic term.
As for the iconic, angels and demons where in some stories (Grimms and a few other where Christians so at point biblical themes show up). In somewhat popular story called the girl with no hands, a man is tricked into selling his daughter to the devil. An angel tells her to keep herself pure and her hands clean and the devil couldn't touch her. So the devil has the father cut the girls hands. So while angles, devils and demons could show up they aren't normally thought of in term of fairy tales. Fairies could fill in for angles (and sphinx who are not found in fairy tales) as the fairy godmother/fairy who bless those who show kindness. Dragons are a defiant in, I think we will still at least one guarding a tower or hoarding gold. Hydras has the same issue as sphinxes and I think again beasts or werwolves/wolves could fill in.
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The Sword in the Stone
Queen Guinivere
Sir Lancelor
Sir Gawain
Sir Accolon
Sir Percival
The Lady of the Lake
Excalibur
Merlin
Morgana Le Fay
Mordred
Camelot
Frog Prince
Hansel and Gretal
The Gingerbread House
Goldilocks
Three Bears
Little Red Riding Hood
Big Bad Wolf
Three Little Pigs
Snow White
Dwarves
Hag with Poisoned Apple
Cinderella
Prince Charming
Wicked Stepmother
Stepsisters
Fairy Godmother
Sleeping Beauty
Maleficent
The Little Mermaid
The Sea Witch
Beauty and the Beast
Rapunzel
The Tower
Jack
Beanstalk
Castle in the Clouds
Giants
Trolls
Goats
Bridge
Pinocchio
Gingerbread Man
Puss in Boots
Ogres
This definitely seems like another set where a high legend count would be appropriate. Like, it would make sense for the royals to all be legends. Add in a seeding convention where every pack has a King, Queen, Prince, or Princess in it and you're gold for a royalty matters mechanic.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Could be funny if he was a "Weird" lol.
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